Soviet Meets China Delegates in Effort to Establish Peace (Universal Newsreel, Dec 1930)

Description

The original release sheet reads: 1. SOVIET MEETS CHINA DELEGATES IN EFFORT TO ESTABLISH PEACE: MOSCOW, USSR - Mo Teh Hui heads conference group from Nanking, sent to treat with Russians led by L.M. Karakhan for revision of agreement which will permit executive personnel of Chinese Eastern Railroad to be divided equally between two nations. Other questions also may be settled as result of the meeting. 2. GIRL PILOT FIRST IN NATIONAL OUTBOARD MOTORBOAT REGATTA: LAKE ELSINORE, CA - Loretta Turnbull, competing against eight other girls, wins easily. Then, to show she’s no fluke champion, heads an octette of Amazons against an equal number of men and wins that event, too. Averaging 46½ miles per hour, she sets a new women’s record. 3. NIPPON CROWN PRINCE RENDERS HOMAGE TO UNKNOWN SOLDIER: ROME, ITALY - Nahubito Takamatsu, probable next Mikado of the land of the rising sun, now on a good-will tour of Europe, joins in tribute to heroes who died on the Piave and other World War battlefields. After which, Mussolini presents colors to newly-formed anti-aircraft regiment. NEWS PARAGRAPHS: 4. NEW YORK, NY - Ben Lindsey almost mobbed! — Curious crowd embarrasses fiery ex-judge making court appearance in Bishop Manning case. 5. BERLIN, GERMANY - The “400” adopts plastic dancing! — Debutantes improvise modernistic rhythm in latest society fad. 6. CLEVELAND, OH - School children learn traffic laws! — Youngsters are taught A.B.C.’s of anti-jaywalking. 7. BURBANK, CA - New Lindbergh plane passes trials! — Unique gear lessens air resistance to maintain 235-mile-an-hour pay-load speed. 8. NATIVE HORDES FLOCK TO SEE $4,000,000 REVIEW BY NEW KING: ADDIS ABABA, ABYSSINIA - Magnificent coronation pageant of Haille I, ruler of Ethiopia, is followed by sensational demonstration of loyalty by troops and tribes-people. Monarch, seated on throne at top of hill, watches parade of soldiers and civilians, in tens of thousands, pass by. 9. ARMY SINKS NAVY, 6-0; STIRRING GAME NETS $600,000 FOR CHARITY: NEW YORK, NY - Crowd exceeding 62,000, on pay-as-you-enter basis for everything from peanuts to parking, sees service academy eleven in thrilling grid battle to aid unemployed, their first meeting since 1927 and season’s last football spectacle. Neither able to score until Stecker of West Point, in last minutes of play, goes 56 yards to touchdown.

Collection

MCA/Universal Pictures Collection

Series

Motion Picture Releases of the Universal Newsreel Library